Best Practices & How-To
How to Build a Payment Fraud Response Plan That Actually Works
When fraud strikes, improvisation costs money. Learn how to build a tested incident response plan that limits losses and restores normal operations…
Data Breaches & Incident Response
Building a Breach Notification Strategy That Meets Legal and Card Brand Deadlines
Breach notification is a maze of overlapping deadlines and audiences. Learn how to build a strategy that satisfies regulators, card brands, and…
Fraud Prevention
Account Takeover Attacks: Detecting and Stopping Credential-Based Fraud
Account takeover turns a legitimate customer account into a fraud tool. Learn how attackers gain access, the warning signs, and the defenses…
Tokenization & Encryption
Network Tokens vs. PCI Tokens: What Every Merchant Should Understand
Not all tokens are created equal. Network tokens issued by the card brands behave very differently from merchant PCI tokens. Understanding the…
Mobile & Digital Wallets
QR Code Payment Scams: How Quishing Works and How to Stay Safe
QR code payments are convenient, but malicious codes have spawned a new fraud category called quishing. Learn how the scams operate and…
Fraud Prevention
How Machine Learning Detects Payment Fraud in Real Time
Rule-based fraud systems can't keep up with adaptive criminals. Learn how machine learning models score transactions in milliseconds and where they still…
Tokenization & Encryption
Key Rotation Without Downtime: A Practical Playbook for Payment Environments
Rotating cryptographic keys is a PCI requirement and a security necessity, but doing it wrong causes outages. Here is a staged approach…
Mobile & Digital Wallets
Protecting Yourself From SIM Swap Attacks That Target Mobile Payments
SIM swap fraud lets attackers hijack the phone number behind your payment and banking accounts. Learn how these attacks work and the…
Emerging Threats & Trends
Real-Time Payments, Real-Time Fraud: The New Risk Landscape of Instant Transfers
Instant payment rails like FedNow and RTP settle in seconds, leaving little time to catch fraud. Here is how the irreversibility of…
E-commerce & Online Payments
Reducing E-commerce Chargeback Fraud Without Killing Legitimate Sales
Fraud filters that are too aggressive cost you real customers, while loose ones invite chargebacks. Here is how to strike a balance…